HP-UX 11i Version 2 Installation and Update Guide, September 2004

Updating to HP-UX 11i v2
Post-Update Tasks
Chapter 6 123
Task 2: Creating an HP Service Partition
(Itanium-based Systems Only)
NOTE This section only applies to Itanium-based systems for Offline
Diagnostics. If you are updating from a PA-RISC system proceed to
Chapter 7, “Installing HP Applications and Patches,” on page 133.
Update-UX does not create or modify the HP Service Partition required
by some HP Offline Diagnostics tools. If you are updating from a system
that does not have an HP Service Partition, such as system newly
updated from HP-UX 11i v1.6, you need to create the HP Service
Partition now.
To Determine Whether the HP Service Partition Exists
Step 1. As root, find the location of your root disk:
• If you are using LVM, enter the following command:
lvlnboot -v
Results similar to the following are displayed:
# lvlnboot -v
Boot Definitions for Volume Group /dev/vg00:
Physical Volumes belonging in Root Volume Group:
/dev/dsk/c2t1d0s2 (0/1/1/0.1.0) -- Boot Disk
Boot: lvol1 on: /dev/dsk/c2t1d0s2
Root: lvol3 on: /dev/dsk/c2t1d0s2
Swap: lvol2 on: /dev/dsk/c2t1d0s2
Dump: lvol2 on: /dev/dsk/c2t1d0s2, 0
• For VxVM, enter the following command:
vxprint -d